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mesg − control write access to your terminal |
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mesg [y|n] |
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Mesg controls the access to your terminal by others. It’s typically used to allow or disallow other users to write to your terminal (see write(1)). |
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Allow write access to your terminal. |
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n |
Disallow write access to your terminal. |
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If no option is given, mesg prints out the current access state of your terminal. |
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Mesg assumes that its standard input is connected to your terminal. That also means that if you are logged in multiple times, you can get/set the mesg status of other sessions by using redirection. For example "mesg n < /dev/pts/46". |
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Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl) |
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talk(1), write(1), wall(1) |